Relative Susceptibility of Selected Apple Cultivars to Botryosphaeria dothidea
2003
Biggs, A. R. (Alan R) | Miller, Stephen S.
Twenty-three apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) cultivars were tested in the field and laboratory for their relative susceptibility to the white rot pathogen, Botryosphaeria dothidea. Wounded fruit were inoculated in the field at 2 to 3 weeks preharvest with mycelium from 14- to 21-day-old cultures. In the laboratory, detached fruit were similarly inoculated. Fruit were rated for relative susceptibility to the fungus with two criteria: disease severity of attached fruit in the field based on lesion growth (mm/degree-day) and disease severity of detached fruit in laboratory inoculations of wounded fruit (mean lesion diameter after 5 days). Based on the laboratory and field data from 2 years of study, cultivars were classified into three relative susceptibility groups: most susceptible: 'Fortune' and 'Pristine'; moderately susceptible: 'Golden Supreme', 'Creston', 'Ginger Gold', 'Sansa', 'Golden Delicious', 'Senshu', 'Orin', 'Sunrise', 'GoldRush', 'Arlet', 'Braeburn', 'Cameo', 'Enterprise', 'Fuji', 'Shizuka', 'Gala Supreme', and NY 75414; and least susceptible: 'Honeycrisp', 'Yataka', 'Suncrisp', and 'PioneerMac'. Compared to previous cultivar rankings, the results of the present study indicate that some new apple cultivars from the first NE-183 planting show greater resistance to Botryosphaeria dothidea than current standard cultivars.
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